A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn't long to   1   , but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor.

“Frank！” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t   2  , as I knew, but all the time   3   his foot against mine.

My   4   raced back more than thirty years to the   5   days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The   6   was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her son Frank.

  7   wartime problems, we shelter-dwellers got to   8   each other very well. Frank West   9   me because he wasn’t   10  , not even at birth. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had   11   of a mind than a baby has. His “  12  ” consisted of rough sounds——sounds of pleasure or anger and   13   more. Mrs. West, then about 75, was a strong, capable woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank   14   on her entirely. He needed all the   15   of a baby.

One night a policeman came and told Mrs. West that her house had been flattened by a 500-pounder. She   16   nearly everything she owned.

When that sort of thing happened, the rest of us helped the   17   ones. So before we   18   that morning, I stood beside Frank and   19   my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a pair of shoes to the shelter for frank. But as soon as he saw me he came running and placed his right foot against mine. After that, his   20   to me was always the same.

1. A. work     B. stay    C. live     D. expect

2. A. answer   B. speak  C. smile         D. laugh

3. A. covering        B. moving      C. fighting      D. pressing

4. A. minds     B. memories   C. thoughts     D. brains

5. A. better     B. dark    C. younger            D. old

6. A. cave      B. place   C. sight          D. scene

7. A. Discussing       B. Solving  C. Sharing            D. Suffering

8. A. learn from       B. talk to   C. help          D. know

9. A. needed          B. recognized  C. interested          D. encouraged

10. A. normal         B. common       C. unusual     D. quick

11. A. more           B. worse  C. fewer         D. less

12. A. word          B. speech C. sentence           D. language

13. A. not             B. no      C. something         D. nothing

14. A. fed             B. kept    C. lived          D. depended

15. A. attention       B. control   C. treatment          D. management

16. A. lost             B. needed       C. destroyed          D. left

17. A. troublesome   B. unlucky   C. angry         D. unpopular

18. A. separated      B. went       C. reunited            D. returned

19. A. pushed        B. tried       C. showed      D. measured

20. A. nodding        B. greeting  C. meeting            D. acting

What makes a person a scientist? Does he have ways or tools of learning that are different from those of others? The answer is “no”. It is not the tools a scientist uses but how he uses these tools that makes him a scientist. You will probably agree that knowing how to use a power is important to a carpenter. You will probably agree, too, that knowing how to investigate(調(diào)查),how to discover information, is important to everyone. The scientist, however, goes one step further, he must be sure that he has a reasonable answer to his questions and that his answer can be confirmed by other persons. He also works to fit the answers he gets to many questions into a large set of ideas about how the world works

The scientist’s knowledge must be exact. There is no room for half right or right just half the time. He must be as nearly right as the conditions permit. What works under one set of conditions at one time must work under the same conditions at other times. If the conditions are different, any changes the scientist observes in a demonstration must be explained by the changes in the conditions. This is one reason that investigations are important in science. Albert Einstein, who developed the theory of relativity, arrived at this theory through mathematics. The accuracy of his mathematics was later tested through investigations. Einstein’s ideas were shown to be correct. A scientist uses many tools for measurements. Then the measurements are used to make mathematical calculations that may test his investigations.

51.What makes a scientist according to the passage?

A.  The tools he uses.            B.  His ways of learning.

C.   The way he uses his tools.     D.  The various tools he use

52.“The scientist, however, goes one step further,” the author says this to show       。

the importance of information    

B. the importance of thinking

C. the difference between scientists and ordinary people

D. the difference between carpenters and people with other jobs.

53. A sound scientific theory should be one that       .

A. does not only work under one set of conditions at one time, but also works under the same conditions at other times

B. leaves no room for improvement

C. does not allow any change even under different conditions

D. can be used for many purposes

54. What is the main idea of the passage?

Scientists are different from ordinary people.

The theory of relativity.

Exactness is the core（核心）of science.

Exactness and way of using tools are the keys to the making of a scientist.

“Would you like tea _____ coffee?” “_____, thanks.”

A. or, No                                                  B. and, Either

C. or, Neither                                            D. and, Each

Ten years had passed. I found she had _______.

A. a few white hairs                                  B. a little white hair

C. some white hair                                    D. more fifty hair

I’d like to live somewhere ____ the sun shines all year long.

A、which          B、that   C、where         D、in which

.There are a lot _______ people today than yesterday.

 A. of  B. more  C. most  D. /

— You _____ stop me.

— Even if you _____ it, I won’t allow you to do it.

A. mustn’t…dare not do  B. may…dare not do

C. can…dare to do        D. needn’t…dare do

If we_________, we can realize the progress we have made in space research.

A. turn back         B. look back   C. answer back       D. move back

I hear Mr. Smith was writing a story last year and he still ____.

    A. do   B. does    C. is   D. am

The man you referred to _____ just now.

A. comes B. come

C. coming      D. came